Thermal diagnostics front-end electronics for LISA Pathfinder. Academic Article

abstract

• Precision temperature measurements are required in the LTP, the LISA technology package, for various diagnostics objectives. In this article, we describe in detail the front-end electronics design and the associated temperature sensors to achieve the LTP requirements: noise equivalent temperature of 10 microK Hz(-12) in the frequency range from 1 to 30 mHz at room temperature. We designed an ac Wheatstone bridge and a subsequent digital demodulation to minimize 1/f noise. We show experimental results where the required sensitivity in the measurement bandwidth is fulfilled.

authors

• Sanjuan Munoz, Jose

published proceedings

• Rev Sci Instrum

author list (cited authors)

• Sanjun, J., Lobo, A., Nofrarias, M., Ramos-Castro, J., & Riu, P. J.

citation count

• 22

complete list of authors

• Sanjuán, J||Lobo, A||Nofrarias, M||Ramos-Castro, J||Riu, PJ

publication date

• October 2007

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Review of Scientific Instruments  Journal

keywords

• Electronics
• Equipment Design
• Equipment Failure Analysis
• Reproducibility Of Results
• Sensitivity And Specificity
• Space Flight
• Temperature
• Thermography

PubMed Central ID

• 17979451

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.2800776

start page

• 104904

end page

• 104904

volume

• 78

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2800776